Investigations by U.S. lawmakers into the student loan industry expanded as Reps George Miller, D-Calif., and chairman of the House education committee, sent a letter to the inspector general of the Education Department asking for a review of the department’s policies against conflicts of interest and the financial disclosure forms of employees overseeing the federal [...]
Kentucky State University is ready to give its financial supporters a taste of fame.
Saturday the school will host its third annual President’s Scholarship Gala from a hangar at Capital City Airport.
This is the first year the event has left KSU’s campus and the first time the airport has rented out one of its hangars, according [...]
The Catholic Schools Foundation held its 17th Annual Inner-City Scholarship Fund Dinner celebration at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on March 28. Troy Brown, wide receiver for the New England Patriots and trustee of the Catholic Schools Foundation was the evening’s featured speaker.
The dinner is held annually to celebrate and support the Inner-City Scholarship Fund [...]
An aviation maintenance technology major at Pennsylvania College of Technology is one of only two students chosen worldwide to receive an Aircraft Maintenance Technician Scholarship from Helicopter Association International.
Wesley C. Miller, of Reading, a junior in the college’s School of Transportation Technology, will receive $2,500 toward his pursuit of aircraft maintenance technician training and certification.
He [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. – An Okalahoma City teenager won the top award of a $100,000 scholarship for building a spectrograph that can identify individual molecules as part of the annual Intel Science Talent Search (STS). Seventeen-year old Mary Masterman spent $100 on the spectrograph in the competition against 1,705 entrants.
Intel chairman Craig Barrett handed out [...]
Glitz, glamour and great food made the annual Father Gilbert J. Burke Easter Ball at Heinz Field on Saturday a complete success for the Alumni Council Endowed Scholarship fund at St. Vincent College. Proceeds from the event enabled volunteers to award their first scholarship to Joseph Giacobbi in the amount of $2,500.
A bidding war broke [...]
The Bayberry Garden Club of Brielle is offering a $1,000 scholarship to New Jersey high school seniors and undergraduate students in an effort to promote the study of horticulture, landscape design, botany and other related subjects.
For an application, write to Mary Lou Bolger, Two Water’s Edge, Brielle, NJ 08730. All documents must be submitted with [...]
Mary Wollenberg pitched the idea of raising money for a scholarship to help a Terryville High School senior graduating this year continue her or his education. The plan was very well received.
“I’m a former teacher and I work with another scholarship through my church,” Wollenberg said.
Sue Murawski, town councilor at large and club member, [...]
The Sadie Harter Cooner Endowed Scholarship will be awarded again this year to a deserving student or students from Bamberg or the surrounding area.
This scholarship was presented to Trinity United Methodist Church in honor of Mrs. Cooner by her nieces, Anne Harter Wilson and Marian B. Harter of Salisbury, N.C. in December 2000. Cooner was [...]
The widow of a Texas oil executive has donated $100 million to expand the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s prestigious merit scholarship program.
As a result, it will be known as the Morehead-Cain Scholarship.
The gift from Mary Cain will allow the university to nearly double the size of the scholarship program.
The four-year scholarship was [...]